Effective employee development programs deliver the right learning to the right person at the right time – with measurable and repeatable results.
The driving idea behind blended learning is to use the technologies of today to accommodate varying learning styles, to ensure the highest rates of learner retention, and to control the costs of traditional training programs (both hard costs and opportunity costs).
Blended learning refers to a development program that draws upon different training modalities to keep learners engaged and to ensure that different learning styles are catered to. A typical modern blended learning program might include e-learning courses, traditional classroom-based sessions, virtual classes, working with mentors, knowledge assets, and more.
The conventional notion of employee training being conducted solely in the classroom is thereby turned on its head. New technologies allow organizations to develop their people in a range of different ways to cut down on the high costs and low retention rates associated with older methods of development.
The Cornerstone Learning™ platform is part of the larger Cornerstone OnDemand Integrated Talent Management suite covering the entire employee lifecycle (onboarding, learning, compliance, performance, compensation, succession, and analytics).
Cornerstone Learning is a complete Learning Management System (LMS) capable of managing, delivering, and reporting on any type of training and development activities to any employee population in your organization. Cornerstone supports a wide range of learning types:
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e-Learning classes |
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Instructor-led training (ILT) sessions |
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Virtual classroom training |
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Posted documents, white papers and presentations |
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Online resources |
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Externally completed training |
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Performance mentoring |
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Social networks, blogs, wikis, podcasts |
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Custom tests and assessments |
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Complex curricula with pre-requisites, pre-/post-work |
Different types of learning result in different outcomes for different students: formal and informal; face-to-face and self study; technology-driven and people-based; mandated and based on personal initiative.
Cornerstone OnDemand unifies these various types of learning under the umbrella of a single, powerful learning and talent management solution.
For employees and managers, seeking out training is not about the method of delivery but the purely the subject matter. A single search from any page of Cornerstone returns sortable results by the type of learning experience. |
